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...France and Britain had already split the swag in anticipation by the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement. With the Armistice both powers took steps to be sure that no Arab state of real importance could arise by cutting off the richest territory as league of nations mandates. Mesopotamia with its rich Tigris-Euphrates valley went to Britain as Irak; France took Syria, also rich in oil. Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, had been British since...
...prize-awarding board. Only in the field of journalism did there seem to be a notable unanimity of choice. Yet no award was more astonishing than that of the $500 gold medal "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American Newspaper." Not the richest in cash value, this is the most coveted journalistic prize in the land. Its terms personify the traditions of the late, great Joseph Pulitzer. First won in 1918 by the New York Times for thoroughgoing coverage of the War, its roster of winners is a roll-call of important U. S. dailies...
...Race. The Kentucky Derby is not the oldest U. S. horse race. Saratoga's Travers Stakes was first run in 1864. The Derby, with its added money reduced this year from $50,000 to $30,000, does not offer the richest stakes. More lucrative for horse owners are the Belmont Futurity (between $80,000 and $90,000) and the Belmont Stakes (some $60,000). Better fields of older horses are to be seen on many a track, and there are those who believe that the Belmont Stakes, run in June by a slightly more mature and smaller selection...
...opportunity to cut defense expenses and add still another $1,000,000 to Britain's surplus was finally lost last week to the MacDonald Government. Two years ago one of the richest and strangest of all British subjects, Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, offered to give ?200,000 of her own money to strengthen Britain's Army & Navy. After much deliberation it was refused. Later she changed this offer, to give the same amount of money for a special air defense for London. Refused a second time, persistent Lady Houston renewed the offer. Last week, still ignored, she withdrew...
...John Reeves Ellerman was one of the least publicized and richest men in the world. An impressive fellow with a great spade beard and a hawk nose, he owned and operated some half-dozen lines of steamers, besides great quantities of real estate and at one time a string of newspapers and a batch of London smart-charts. Living in an almost miserly simplicity, he was only a vague name to most Britons, despite his fat checks to British charities. His last charity occurred when he died in Dieppe last July, aged 71, leaving an estate...